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This is a work in progress.

Burn Fuel to Get Fast, Burn Fuel to Get Slow.

Religious and Spiritual We grew up with rituals that felt empty.

Today I am building Haiku Finder Haiku Scanner?

Previously I talked with Max Harms yesterday about representing the human mind as a pattern, and how its physical form is based on our connectomes.

Next Steps for Zenith Zenith is approaching ready for posting on a venue like Hacker News, where if it catches on, could generate massive server loads.

Zoom out for Zenith Zenith is my beautiful awe inspiring, inner-peace inducing, unique planetarium app that puts the viewer in a straightjacket, lying flat on the ground, tapes their eyelids open, and shoves a 180x telescope in their face, pointed straight

Very Young Me watched on live tv.

My Dad was born in 1934 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with a reject for a spine that twisted as he grew.

About Zenith This is a real time view of the stars above you right now.

I do regret having to use words to attack other words in my last word-critique article.

At the Intercon, I hear someone moving my empty roadcases behind me.

Haiku is the “Ruthless Editor”.

Baron was so low key I worked with him for years before learning he was on albums I’d had, on vinyl, in college (a fact I’d missed because I was never the type to know all the sidemen on a record).

Standardized tests don’t serve all students well and accurately; they are unfair gatekeepers, say the critics.

That’s not how volume control works.

Still Means:"We don't have all day; you are holding up my agenda.

Why do airplanes move through patches of weather, but a Space Station does not?

I created this site 8 months ago.

I’m loading subwoofers into my sound gig at a quite proper club in Newton, Mass.

Previously: Part I When I was younger, I did have a bonafide ambition - to write software.

It was a passing scene in a movie - something urban with snappy dialog.

Preface: Click this triangle now Most readers here have used an AI chat, such as Claude or ChatGPT.

How long has that smell been there?

me: brain, let’s talk. brain: I always have time for my favorite consciousness. what’s up my dude?

Cycling across Arizona, a cop pulls me over.

The Newport mansion wedding reception was the usual opulence, with the usual pressures.

The question on Quora was: What is your best customer service experience in hotels?

Jupiter and Saturn are Absolute Units, the gravitational heavyweight champs of the solar system.

This article is now a video from MinutePhysics on YouTube There’s something backwards about orbital mechanics that always tripped me up.

There’s an elegant way to produce quieter windows, with just a simple tweak in their construction.

You can engage an LLM for role playing - as a professor, fictional character, historical figure, etc. this happens by explicit request.

The first thing I wrote in SwiftUI (back after a 20 year break from programming): When writing a haiku, you're constantly recounting syllables.

From “TrackMyTour” cycling blog.